Words similar to nickname
Example sentences for: nickname
How can you use “nickname” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Because Nicholas collects everything from spent batteries to flattened fauna, his nickname is junk Man, while baby George is called Wee Geordie after a character in a Welsh novel my father read.
Surely the nickname has stuck not only because of the metaphorical associations with librarians burrowing for answers, but also because the name sounds cute, personalizing what otherwise might seem to be the overly mechanical activity of finding answers to reference questions.
Before long they were proudly calling themselves Hurons `Roughnecks' or `Rugged Ones' and the nickname stuck.
Bazza was the nickname of the title character in The Adventures of Barry McKenzie , a comic strip created by Barry Humphries and artist Nicholas Garland.
Tribes in Canada and along the Great Lakes called Jesuit missionaries Black Robes in yet another nickname related to outlandish apparel.